Lab Meetings
In Spring 2022, lab meetings are held Tuesdays at 9am (Pacific time). We are currently meeting on zoom, but this may change to the Linguitics Conference Room or a hybrid format later on. Please email emkaiser AT usc.edu for the zoom link.
Spring 2022 lab meeting schedule
| Tue Jan 11 | Organizational meeting |
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Tue Jan 25 |
Navigating the Conference Landscape |
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Tue Feb 1 |
Jesse Storbeck: Investigating processing of possession relations with web-based eye-tracking |
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Tue Feb 8 |
No meeting |
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Tue Feb 15 |
Adam Woodnutt: Singular Definite Generics and Kinds |
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Tue Feb 22 |
Short presentations: Muxuan He on "Real-world knowledge and processing negation" and Hailin Hao on "Effects of Plausibility in Agreement Attraction" |
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Tue March 1 |
Ian Rigby: Effects of Sound Symbolism on Facial Categorization |
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Tue March 8 |
Silvia Kim: Pronoun use in English-Korean Code-switching |
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Tue March 15 |
Spring break |
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Tue March 22 |
HSP2022 at UCSC this week |
| Mon April 11 | Brian Dillon (UMass Amherst): Constraining pronominal reference in real-time (3.30pm Monday, Linguistics Dept Colloquium) |
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Tue April 12 |
Jina Song: Real-time processing of multiple pronouns (start time: 9.30am) |
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Tue April 19 |
Jun Lyu: Logophority and reflexive resolution in Mandarin |
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Tue April 28 |
Fall 2021 lab meeting schedule
| Tues Aug 23 | organizational meeting |
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Tues Aug 31 |
AMLaP practice presentations |
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Tues Sept 7 |
(no meeting) |
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Tues Sept 14 |
Zuzanna Fuchs: Quantifying the effort of listening in your non-dominant language: A Dual Task approach |
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Tues Sept 21 |
Cindy Chiang: Uh what did you say? Children’s parsing preferences are altered by experience with disfluent sentences (practice talk for BUCLD) |
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Tues Sept 28 |
Jesse Storbeck: Web-based eye-tracking with PCIbex: A brief tutorial and example |
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Tues Oct 5 |
Ian Rigby: Effects of sound symbolism on visual categorization |
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Tues Oct 12 |
Jina Song: Effects of topicality on pronoun interpretation |
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Tues Oct 19 |
Jun Lyu: Syntactic prominence and the blocking effect in Mandarin Chinese (NELS practice talk) |
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Tues Oct 26 |
Muxuan He: The Syntax-semantics Interface in L2 acquisition: The Scope of Negation in Tagalog-Chinese Interlanguage Grammars |
| Tuers Nov 2 |
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Tues Nov 9 |
Silvia Kim: Testing coherence relations with different types of pronouns in Spanish |
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Tues Nov 16 |
Sarah Lee:Online processing of the dynamicity of transfer events: A visual-world eye-tracking study |
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Tues Nov 23 |
(Thanksgiving week) |
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Tues Nov 30 |
Fall 2020 lab meeting schedule
| Thurs Aug 20 | organizational meeting |
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Thurs Aug 27 |
AMLaP practice presentations |
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Thurs Sept 3 |
No lab meeting (so that we can go AMLaP online Thurs-Sat, freely accessible here as well as Sinn und Bedeutung Tue-Sat, freely accessible here) |
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Thurs Sept 10 |
Jesse Storbeck: Discourse behavior of possessives reflects the importance of interpersonal relationships (practice talk for Experiments in Linguistic Meaning) |
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Thurs Sept 17 |
No lab meeting (so that we can go to the ELM conference) (registration is free) |
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Thurs Sept 24 |
Cindy Chiang: Going against verb bias: Toddlers shift parsing strategies when encountering disfluencies (practice talk for BU) |
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Thurs Oct 1 |
Jun Lyu: Assessing Kuno's two empathy hierarchies: A case study of the Chinese reflexive 'ziji' |
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Thurs Oct 8 |
Reading group: Discussion of Brysbaert (2019) on power analyses and sample size |
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Thurs Oct 15 |
Jina Song: Forward-looking effects in English pronoun interpretation |
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Thurs Oct 22 |
no lab meeting today |
| Thurs Oct 29 |
Ian Rigby: Processing of Sound Symbolic Associations |
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Thurs Nov 5 |
Silvia Kim: Mental representation of null pronouns by Spanish speakers |
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Thurs Nov 12 |
Online "Cycle Linguists" talk by Daphna Heller and Sarah Brown-Schmidt (see slack channel for details, pre-registration required) 9am California time |
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Thurs Nov 19 |
Jesse Storbeck and Elsi Kaiser: Webgazer / online eyetracking |
Spring 2020 lab meeting schedule
| Tue Jan 21 | Academic professionalization (CVs and websites) + Cindy Chiang: Examining impacts of filled pauses on children’s parses of dative alternations |
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Tue Jan 28 |
Jun Lyu: Online resolution of anaphoric and cataphoric dependencies in English weak crossover |
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Tue Feb 4 |
Chloe Gfeller: Metrical expectations in speech perception |
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Tue Feb 11 |
Betul Erbasi: Familiarity as a guide to understanding contraction in German |
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Tue Feb 18 |
Ana Besserman: Existential and Anaphoric implicit objects in comprehension: effects of context-dependency |
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Tue Feb 25 |
Ian Rigby: Information Theoretic Constraints in English Name Blending |
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Tue March 3 |
Sung Hah Hwang: Prosody in Siri-directed Speech |
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Tue March 10 |
pre-CUNY meeting |
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Tue March 17 |
Spring break, no meeting |
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Tue March 24 |
Open House extravaganza |
| Tue March 31 |
Silvia Kim: Korean null pronoun interpretation by L2 learners |
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Tue April 7 |
Jina Song: L2 Acquisition of scrambling in Korean |
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Tue April 14 |
Daniel Plesniak: Correlations of judgements in binding constructions |
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Tue April 21 |
Jesse Storbeck (to be confirmed): Effects of representational complexity and perspective taking in possessive processing |
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Tue April 28 |
Sarah Lee: The successful transfer inference in transfer-of-possession events: aspectual, lexical semantic, and syntactic cues |
Fall 2019 lab meeting schedule
| Tue Aug 27 | organization meeting + Silvia Kim: English-Korean Code-switching: Looking Beyond Balanced Bilinguals and Beyond Indo-European (practice talk for AMLaP) |
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Tue Sept 3 |
No meeting |
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Tue Sept 10 |
Jun Lyu: Recency or locality: A story of two Chinese reflexives |
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Tue Sept 17 |
Jina Song: Effects of coherence relations on the interpretation of Korean null pronouns(practice talk for DETEC) |
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Tue Sept 24 |
Cindy Chiang: Examining the effects of disfluencies on verb bias |
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Tue Oct 1 |
Helen Lu: Visual rule learning: The connection between human action and speech |
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Tue Oct 8 |
Silvia Kim: L2 Korean Null Pronoun Interpretation by Spanish Speakers |
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Tue Oct 15 |
Jesse Storbeck: Discourse-level interpretation of possessed nouns |
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Tue Oct 22 |
Mary Byram Washburn: An alternative time course for focus |
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Tue Oct 29 |
Ian Rigby: Linguistic and Psychological Constraints in the Formation of Name Blends |
| Tue Nov 5 |
Elsi out of town |
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Tue Nov 12 |
Ana Besserman: Processing existential and anaphoric implicit objects in Brazilian Portuguese |
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Tue Nov 19 |
Sarah Lee: Tracking object state change in activity events: Topicality, tense/aspect, and other factors |
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Tue Nov 26 |
Jina Song: L2 acquisition of scrambling in Korean |
Spring 2019 lab meeting schedule
| Tue Jan 8 | organizational meeting |
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Thurs Jan 10 (note special time and place: 12noon, VPD LL101 Lower level) |
Judy Kroll, UC Riverside: Consequences of bilingualism for mind, brain, and society 12-1.30pm in VPD LL101 (Dauterive Hall) |
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Tue Jan 15 |
Website creation and management |
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Tue Jan 22 |
Cindy Chiang: Learning ambicategorical words |
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Tue Jan 29 |
Daniel Plesniak: Correlations of judgements in pronominal binding and quantifier scope |
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Tue Feb 5 |
CV workshop |
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Tue Feb 12 |
Jesse Storbeck: Discourse-level processing of possessive constructions |
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Tue Feb 19 |
no lab meeting |
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Tue Feb 26 |
Open House Extravaganza |
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Tue March 5 |
Jina Song: Parsing and Interpretation of Null pronouns in Korean |
| Tue March 12 |
Spring Break |
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Mon March 18, 1-2pm GFS 212 (note special time, location) |
Binh Ngo: Implicit causality: A comparison of English and Vietnamese verbs (practice talk for the Penn Linguistics Conference) |
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Tue March 26 |
CUNY preparations |
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Tue April 2 |
Silvia Kim: Spanish in contact with Korean: New insights into language switching |
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Mon April 8, 3.30pm (note special date and time) |
Linguistics department colloquium talk by Ming Xiang, U Chicago |
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Tue April 9 |
Yijing Lu and Cindy Chiang: Effect of discourse status on representational complexity and structural integration |
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Tue April 16 |
no lab meeting |
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Tue April 23 |
Angela Xiaohue He: Linguistic context in verb learning: less is sometimes more |
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Additional meeting late April/early May (date TBA) |
Binh Ngo: Investigating effects of age cues on pronominal expressions during real-time processing |
To be scheduled: Betul Erbasi: Uniqueness in possession
Fall 2018 lab meeting schedule
| Wed Aug 29 | AMLAP practice presentations by Ana Besserman and Sarah Lee |
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Wed Sept 5 |
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Wed Sept 12 |
Jesse Storbeck: ggplot workshop (script here) |
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Wed Sept 19 |
Cindy Chiang and Yijing Lu: Representational complexity and locality effects in long-distance dependencies |
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Wed Sept 26 |
Brooke Kidner: Belching as a speech object: Examining idiolects from pop culture |
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Wed Oct 3 |
no lab meeting this week |
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Wed Oct 10 |
Madhumanti Datta: The interaction of distributional and semantic information in learning verb alternation patterns - A novel verb learning study |
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Wed Oct 17 |
Haley Farkas: Quantification and visual event segmentation |
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Wed Oct 24 |
Angela Xiaoxue He: Sleep consolidates syntactically-derived verb meanings in 2-year-olds (Practice talk for BUCLD, Boston Conference on Language Development) |
| Wed Oct 31 |
no lab meeting this week |
| Wed Nov 7 |
Ana Besserman: Context effects on implicit objects' discourse status |
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Wed Nov 14 |
Silvia Kim: Korean/English code-switching by heritage speakers |
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Wed Nov 21 |
Thanksgiving break (no lab meeting) |
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Wed Nov 28 |
Jina Song: Salience effects on pro interpretation in Korean |
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Dec 1-2, 2018 |
The 2nd Annual California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP) |
Spring 2018 lab meeting schedule
| Thurs Jan 18 | Stephanie Shih: Cross-linguistic sound-meaning correspondences in the Pokémon universe |
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Thurs Jan 25 |
Monica Do and Binh Ngo: What’s in a word? Investigating the role of perceptual salience in classifier choice |
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Thurs Feb 1 |
Haley Farkas: Acquisition of verbal comparatives |
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Thurs Feb 8 |
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Thurs Feb 15 |
Catherine Wang: Fact or opinion? Interpreting subjective adjectives in news discourse (practice talk for TULCon) |
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Thurs Feb 22 |
organizational meeting |
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Wed Feb 28, 3.30pm |
Open House Lab Research Event |
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Thurs March 1 |
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Thurs March 8 |
CUNY preparations |
| Thurs March 15 |
Spring Break, CUNY |
| Thurs March 22 |
Sarah Lee: Interpreting entailed and implied results: An online investigation of verb meaning and pragmatics |
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Thurs March 29 |
Jesse Storbeck:Acquisition of probabilistic non-adjacent dependencies in an artificial grammar |
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Thurs April 5 |
Elsi Kaiser: TBA |
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Thurs April 12 |
Ana Besserman: Comprehension, accessibility and referential persistence: the discourse status of existential implicit arguments |
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Thurs April 19 |
Monica Do: Psych verbs amaze Monica: How the conceptual structure of psych verbs influences production planning |
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Thurs April 26 |
no lab meeting |
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Thurs May 3 |
Madhumanti Datta, Betul Erbasi and Sarah Lee: Bridging References from Events and Entities in online Sentence Comprehension |
The first CAlifornia Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP) meeting took place at UCLA Dec 2-3, 2017.
Fall 2017 lab meeting schedule
| Wed Aug 28 | Welcome back! Organizational meeting, announcements |
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Wed Aug 30 |
Ana Besserman: Implicit Arguments and Discourse |
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Wed Sept 6 |
No lab meeting (some lab members will be at AMLAP) |
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Wed Sept 13 |
No lab meeting (to avoid conflict with CER event on NSF grant writing) |
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Monday Sept 18, 3.30pm (Note special date and time) |
Vic Ferreira, UCSD, departmental colloquium |
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Wed Sept 20 |
no lab meeting |
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Wed Sept 27 |
Andreas Brocher (University of Cologne, Germany): Two processes affect referent introduction in discourse: concept activation and referent activation |
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Wed Oct 4 |
no lab meeting |
| Wed Oct 11 |
Monica Do: Locating verb complexity in production |
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Wed Oct 18 |
Betul Erbasi: Defining Familiarity in Turkish DPs |
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Wed Oct 25 |
Jesse Storbeck: Constraints on possessive pronoun resolution in VP ellipsis |
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Wed Nov 1 |
Miran Oh: Sub-syllable domain of corrective focus in Korean |
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Wed Nov 8 |
Sarah Lee: Semantic cues and prediction in comprehension of events: 'Are you telling me there's an end to this?' |
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Monday Nov 13, 2.30-4pm, VKC 201 [note special date/time and location] |
Jesse Harris and Stephanie Rich (UCLA):Predicted analyses linger: The case for structural prediction with either-or structures |
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Wed Nov 15 |
no lab meeting |
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Wed Nov 22 |
Thanksgiving Break
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Wed Nov 29 |
Alexis Wellwood: Individuating and comparing objects and events |
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Dec 2-3 |
Spring 2017 lab meeting schedule
| Thurs Jan 26 | Monica Do: Syntactic Satiation and Syntactic Priming: Two sides of the same coin? |
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Thurs Feb 2 |
Stefan Keine: Tutorial on analyzing self-paced reading data using R |
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Mon Feb 6 (Linguistics Colloquium, 3.30pm) |
Matt Wagers (UC Santa Cruz): Competition among pronouns in Chamorro grammar and Chamorro sentence processing |
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Thurs Feb 9 |
Lindy Comstock (UCLA): Morphological priming in Russian |
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Thurs Feb 16 |
Binh Ngo: Kinship features in Vietnamese pronoun resolution |
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Thurs Feb 23 |
no lab meeting |
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Thurs March 2 |
Jesse Storbeck: Acquisition of non-adjacent categorical dependencies in an artificial grammar |
| Thurs March 9 |
Mini poster session! (special time: 4-5pm) |
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Thurs March 16 |
Spring Break |
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Thurs March 23 |
no lab meeting |
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Thurs March 30 |
CUNY Conference (at MIT), no lab meeting |
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Thurs April 6 |
Stefan Keine: Diagnosing constraints through inter-speaker variability |
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Thurs April 13 |
Monica Do: How are Questions Made? The Sequel: A Production Study of Wh-Questions |
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Thurs April 20 |
no lab meeting |
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Thurs April 27 |
Ana Besserman: Implicit Arguments and Discourse |
Fall 2016 lab meeting schedule
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Thurs Sept 15, 2pm (conf room) |
Bhamati Dash: Dependency effects with an impoverished cue: An experimental study of wh-scope marking constructions in Hindi |
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Thurs Sept 22, 2pm (read room) |
Hayeun Jang: /o/-stems as faster late-starters in decay of Korean vowel harmony: An experimental investigation |
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Thurs Sept 29 |
[[no lab meeting]] |
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Thurs Oct 6, 3.30pm, GFS 217 (special location) |
Eva Wittenberg (UCSD): That’s not it: What pronouns can tell us about objects and events |
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Thurs Oct 13, 3.30pm (conf room) |
Samantha Gordon Danner: Investigating Task Dependence in Vocal Tract and Manual Gesture Coordination |
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Thurs Oct 20 (read room) |
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Monday Oct 24 (conf room), 4pm (special time and date) |
Ida Toivonen (Carleton University): Distance distributivity and indefinites in English and Swedish [Joint Event with Syntax+] |
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Thurs Oct 27, 2pm (conf room) |
Jesse Storbeck: Gender's effect on sloppy identity interpretations in VP ellipsis |
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Thurs Nov 3, 3.30pm (conf room) |
Ana Besserman: Expectations about transitivity in First and Second languages |
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Thurs Nov 10, 2pm (read room) |
Binh Ngo: Referential forms in narratives: Pear Stories in Vietnamese |
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Monday Nov 14, 3.30pm |
Departmental colloquium, Sarah Brown-Schmidt (Vanderbilt Univ) |
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Thurs Nov 17 (read room) |
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Thurs Nov 24 |
[[no lab meeting, Thanksgiving break!]] |
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Thurs Dec 1, 3.30pm (conf room) |
Monica Do: How are Questions Made? A Production Study of Wh-Questions |
Spring 2016 lab meeting schedule
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Thurs Feb 4 |
Meeting to discuss mixed-effects modelling (R/lmer) |
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Monday Feb 8 |
Mary Byram Washburn: Early and Late Processing of Focus |
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Thurs Feb 18 |
Priyanka Biswas: How many are 'many'? |
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Mon Feb 22 |
Elsi Kaiser: Investigating the cognitive and linguistic representation of causality: Evidence from language production (CUNY workshop practice talk) |
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Mon Feb 29 |
Maury Lander-Portnoy: The role of auditory streaming in speech perception in noise |
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Mon March 7 (Dept Colloq, 3.30-5pm) |
Departmental colloquium talk by Jon Sprouse (Uconn) |
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Thurs March 10 |
Ana Besserman: Use of discourse cues during garden-path resolution is modulated by verb argument structure |
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Mon March 21 |
[[no lab meeting]] |
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Thurs March 31 |
Samantha Gordon: Coordination and lag in manual and vocal tract gesture |
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Mon April 4 [NEW DATE] |
Chorong Kang: Different types of QPs, different sensitivity to prosody |
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Thurs April 7 |
[[no lab meeting]] |
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Mon April 11 |
Binh Ngo: Pronoun interpretations in Vietnamese |
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Thursday April 21 |
Johanna Klages (University of Göttingen, Germany): About the Implicit Content of Agent-Evocator Verbs: Are We Dealing with a Presupposition? (Or possibly: On Some Cues for Perspective Shift in German and English) |
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Mon April 25 (special location, room to be announced) |
[Joint talk with Syntax+] Sanghoun Song and Eunjeong Oh (Incheon National University and Sangmyung University): What Happened in the Last 24 Years: Acceptability Judgments on Korean Generative Grammar Circle Data |
Fall 2014 lab meeting schedule
(To be announced: Practice conference talks by Emily Fedele and Ana Besserman)
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Thurs Sept 25 |
Samantha Gordon: Positioning English Derivational Affixes in the Lexicon |
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Thurs Oct 2 |
Chorong Kang: When movement and prosody cannot communicate with LF |
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Thurs Oct 9 |
Monica Do: We’ve Only Skimmed the Surface: Spanish Speakers' Acquisition of English Subject-Verb Inversion |
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Monday Oct 13, 3.30-5pm **special date and time** |
Emily Fedele: "Resolving Null and Overt Pronouns in Italian: An Experimental Investigation of Syntax-Semantic Interactions" (practice talk for Texas Linguistics Society). Ana Besserman: "There was...something new! Discourse-based Predictions During Language Comprehension" (practice talk for American Pragmatics Association conference). |
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Thurs Oct 23 |
Binh Ngo: Influence of Context on Numeral Classifier Choice |
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Thurs Nov 13 |
Elsi Kaiser: Causal Relations in Language Influence Perception of Causality in Visual Stimuli |
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Thurs Nov 20 |
Iris Ouyang: Prosody cues for corrective focus: What happens when an understandable misbelief meets an implausible fact? |
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Thurs Dec 4 |
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Monday Dec 8 (3.30pm, special time, location TBA) |
Departmental colloq by Lyn Frazier (UMass) |
(To be scheduled: Andrés Benítez Pozo: Does Entraining to Visual Stimuli Enhance Speech Perception?)
Spring 2013 lab meeting schedule
| Thurs Jan 24 | Mary Byram Washburn : Focus Inhibits Free Associates: An investigation using mouse-tracking |
| Wed Feb 6 | Dasha Henderer : Effect of Articulatory Rhyme on Performance in a Rhyme Judgment Task |
| Fri Feb 22 (2.30pm) [special day & time] |
Betty Birner (Linguistics/Cognitive Science, Northern Illinois Univ): How is Inversion Like an Allophone? Complementary Distribution and Noncanonical Word Order. |
| Wed Feb 27 | Susan Geffen: When and how babies distinguish between statements and questions |
| Monday March 11 (10am) [special day & time] |
Mary Byram Washburn: Investigations into the Meaning of Focus (practice talk) |
| Thurs March 14 | Emily Fedele: Looking back and looking forward: Anaphora and cataphora in Italian (practice talk for Penn Linguistics Colloquium) |
| Wed March 27 | Iris Ouyang: Informativity and phonetic reduction |
| Thurs April 11 | Boutaina Cherqaoui: Story-telling in Moroccan Arabic: Speakers’ Referential Choices in Narratives |
| Wed April 24 | Arunima Choudhury: (title TBA) |
Fall 2012 lab meeting schedule
| Thurs Oct 5 | Jesse Harris (Pomona College) : Tutorial on Amazon Mechanical Turk |
| Thurs Oct 11 | David Li: The role of speech rate and articulation in lexical ambiguity resolution. (practice talk for Mental Lexicon) |
| Fri Oct 19 | Emily Fedele: Cross-linguistic priming of anaphoric dependencies in Italian-English bilinguals |
| Fri Nov 9 | Mythili Menon: Structural Integration Priming from Music to Language |
| Thurs Nov 15 | Lucy Kim: The relationship between language and memory |
| Fri Nov 30 | Arunima Choudhury: Focus, Word-Order and Prosody in Hindi |
Spring 2012 lab meeting schedule
| (special time) Tue Jan 3 |
Practice talks for the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting: Arunima Choudhury: Prosodic focus in Bangla: A psycholinguistic investigation of production and perception Iris Chuoying Ouyang: Focus-marking in a tone language: Prosodic cues in Mandarin Chinese Ed Holsinger: An eye-tracking investigation of contextual bias on idiom processing |
| Wed Jan 15 | Organizational meeting, discussion of abstract writing |
| (bonus talk) Tue Feb 14 |
Ellen Bialystok (York University, Canada): Reshaping the Mind: The Benefits of Bilingualism NOTE: Talk starts at 10 am, takes place in EEB248 |
| Wed Feb 15 | Elsi Kaiser: Exploring the Lexical and Acoustic Consequences of Referential Predictability |
| >Wed Feb 29 | David Li: Investigating effects of speech rate and gestural representations on the perception of coronal place assimilation |
| Wed March 7 | Emily Fedele: Reference resolution in Romance: Interpretation of null and overt pronouns in Italian |
| Wed March 21 | Grace Livingstone: Pronoun interpretation after speech errors: Dealing with imperfect input |
| Wed March 28 | Xin Zhao: How different levels of syntactic flexibility influence language production in Mandarin Chinese |
| Wed April 4 | Hao Wang: On the acquisition of functional categories |
| Wed April 18 | Xiao He: Perspective taking and the Chinese reflexive 'ziji' |
Possible additional meetings still to be scheduled for Spring 2012.
"Language Acquisition" Talk series (hosted by the Psychology Dept)
2/22 Wed 12-2pm Scott Johnson (UCLA): A neoconstructivist view of infant object perception, KAP 141
4/5 Thu 12-2pm Sarah Creel (UCSD): Who hears a Who? Recognizing talkers and processing language across development, SGM 414
4/19 Thu 12-2pm David Moore (Pitzer College): Mental Rotation of 3D objects in early infancy, VKC 258
Please contact Hao Wang for details (billhao AT gmail DOT com). All events are held at 12 – 2pm with one hour of talk and one hour of student discussion. Food and drink will be provided.
Spring 2011 lab meeting schedule
| Wed Jan 19 | Mary Byram: Focus and set type in a lexical decision task |
| Wed Feb 2 | Lucy Kim: The interpretation of the Korean topic marker –(n)un in discourse continuation |
| Wed Feb 16 | Chuo-Ying Ou-Yang: Prosodic Cues for Information Types in Mandarin |
| Wed March 9 | Ellen O'Connor: Failing to miss negation in grammatical illusions |
| Wed March 30 | Stephanie Yu-chi Huang: Semantic flexibility in message formulation during online production (CLS practice talk) Post-CUNY poster discussion |
| Wed April 6 | Priyanka Biswas: On reference resolution of distal demonstratives and anaphoric pronouns in Bangla |
| Wed April 13 | [no lab meeting] |
| Wed April 20 | Sofiana Chiriacescu: Stability of reference, discourse prominence and pe-marking in Romanian |
| Wed April 27 | Elsi Kaiser: Effects of discourse structure on the comprehension and production of referring expressions |
Fall 2010 lab meeting schedule
| >Tue Aug 31 | organizational meeting, welcome back! |
| Tue Sept 14 | Lucy Kim: Korean L2 speakers' phonological representation of the English /l/-/r/ contrast (practice talk for J/K) |
| Tue Sept 28 | Yin Bin: Chinese Speakers’ Acquisition of Telicity in English (practice talk for SLRF) |
| Tue Oct 12 | Stephanie Yu-chi Huang: Flexibility in language production |
| Tue Oct 19 | Xiao He: Person-feature based blocking and the Chinese reflexive ziji (practice talk for MLS) |
| Tue Oct 26 | Ed Holsinger: Seeing the forest and the trees: an eye-tracking investigation of the time-course of idiom activation in biased and unbiased contexts |
| Tue Nov 9 | David Li: Spoken word recognition and rate: An investigation of lexical access with insights from Articulatory Phonology |
| Tue Nov 16 | Heui-Joo Jeoung: Processing of word order in Korean |
| Tue Nov 23 | Arunima Choudhury: Perception of Focus Types: New-information Focus vs. Contrastive Focus in Bangla |
| Tue Nov 30 | Canan Ipek: Phonetic realization of focus in Turkish |
Joint meeting with Syntax+ on Monday Sept 27, 3pm: Practice talks for RALFe 2010 by Katy McKinney-Bock (Eyeing the syntax-semantics interface: Investigating differences between dimension and color adjectives) and Ellen O'Connor Mohun ( A Clausal Analysis of Dari and Tajik Phrasal Comparatives)
To be scheduled: Eyetracking python script demo by Ed Holsinger
Spring 2010 lab meeting schedule
| Wed Jan 20 (3:30-4:30pm) |
Organizational meeting, welcome back! |
| Mon Feb 1 (10:30-11:30am) |
Mary Byram The Effect of Length and Focus on the English Dative Alternation: In need of some second opinions. |
| Wed Feb 17 (3:30-4:30pm) |
Susan Geffen Can infants discriminate between declaratives and questions using prosodic cues? |
| Mon March 1 (10:30-11:30am) |
Sam Tilsen Biasing the resolution of semantic ambiguity with transcranial magnetic stimulation of primary motor cortex |
| Wed March 24 (3:30-4:30pm) |
Barbara Tomaszewicz The Processing of Majority Quantifiers |
| Mon March 29 (10:30-11:30am) |
Hao Wang Frequent frames in languages with rich morphology: analyses of German and Turkish |
| Wed April 14 (3:30-4:30pm) |
Stephanie Huang Ba or Bei: Factors that affect Mandarin Speakers' choice of sentence type during language production |
| Mon April 26 (10:30-11:30am) |
Yin Bin Chinese Speakers' Interpretation of Telicity in English |